AI -powered painting generators, which are in the center of many copyrights against AI, are often trained in the scope of huge data from public web sites. Most of these corporations say that Doctrine of permitted use Tarts their practices of scraping data and training. But many copyright owners do not agree.
That is why some startups and corporations developing painting generators try one other tack: training generators only on licensed content. New York and Tel Aviv BriaEstablished in 2023 by Yair Adato and Assa Eldar entrepreneurs, is one of them.
Bria pays about 20 partners for paintings, including Getty Images, and uses them to coach models generating images from the content. Adato, the general director of Brii, said that the platform “programowo” compensates for image owners in accordance with their “general influence”.
“Bria Foundation models have a billion visualizations and millions of films,” said Adato. “Bria softened prejudices, which can sometimes appear in visual content generated by AI, training his models on globally representative data sets. Company models consistently produce visualizations that reflect diversity, thanks to which they are suitable for various creative applications. “
Bria offers plugins for editing and designing images, including Photoshop and Figma, in addition to a tuning API interface, which allows customers to adapt the company’s models to specific applications. Users can launch BRIA models on the company platform or in an external computing environment corresponding to a public cloud. Adato said that in each cases customers are the owners of data and results.
“Corporate clients can pay for access to the source code i [models]Adato said. “We provide over 30 specialized API interfaces for creating and modifying visualizations, to which customers gain access using subscription and valuation based on use. Companies will pay for tanning our generative AI models using their brand resources, creating non -standard engines that maintain their visual identity. “
Brii’s plans are ambitious. Adato says TechCrunch that a 40-person company is attempting to support the “IP ecosystem”, in which corporations can access licensed images from media conglomerates for use in business creations, with “built-in compliance”.
Bria also plans to expand his platform and models to support additional types of media, including music, video and text, in addition to applied applications.
“Bria is still developing despite wider challenges in the technology industry,” said Adato. “While the sector faces the wind at the maturation of the central market of a technology company, macroeconomic pressure causing budget restrictions and the transmission of basic applications of AI packaging, these factors strengthen Brii’s position.”
While the growing number of projects is attempting to build corporations around licensed media generators, including Adobe, Spawning AI and Shutterstock, Bria managed to get a foothill in the emerging market. On Thursday, the company announced that it collected $ 40 million in the Busy of Series B financing round chaired by Red Dot Capital with the participation of Maor Investment, Entrée Capital, GFT Ventures, Intel Capital and Real Estate.
Adato said that in total Brii increased to about $ 65 million, most of the new money could be allocated to product development.
“We are quickly developing with our 40 clients, showing a significant annual increase in revenues by over 400% last year,” said Adato. “We are also expanding our team with additional specialist knowledge in several key areas: generative researchers and engineers of artificial intelligence in the field of music and video, global sales and marketing leaders, IP experts and copyright as well as generative AI consultants. We expect us to double our team by the end of the year. “